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Ursus nasua, G. Ctivier Tabl. Element, d' Hist. Nat , p. 113 (1798)*. 



Nasua quasje, Desmarest N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., vii, p. 217 (1817). 



Nasua rufa, Desmarest Mamm., p. 170 (1820); Allen Bull. U. S. GeoU 



Surv., V, p. 170. 

 Nasua fusca, Desmarest Mamm.., p. 170 (1820). 

 Nasua solitaria, Pr, Maximilian zu Wied Beitr. Natttrg. Bras., ii, p, 



292 (1826)*. 

 Nasua socialis, F?". Maximilian zri Wied Beitr. Naturg. Bras., ii, p. 283, 



(1826)*. 

 Nasua vittata, Tschudi Faun. Peruan., p. lOl (1844). 

 Nasua montana, id. ibid, p. 102, pi. v (1844). 

 Nasua narica, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 74 (1843) [pt.]. 

 Nasua olivacea, Gray P. Z. S , p. 703 (1864). 

 Nasua dorsalis, Gray P. Z. S., p. J69, pi. xvii (1866). 



The Ring-tailed Coati. 



Distribution. — South America from Surinam to Paraguay and 

 from the Atlantic to the Andes. 



a. Skin, skelet. W. Rutledge. 



$ 



h. Skin, skelet. Purchased. 



juv. ? 

 c. Skin, skelet. Purchased. 



<i. Skin, skelet, W. Rutledge. 



e. Stuffed' Brazil Rajah R. Mullick, 1866. 



/.Skull Surinam A. D.Bartlett, 1849, A.S.B. 



Nasua nasica. 



Viverra narica, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 64 (1766). 



Nasua narica, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 74 (1843) [pt.] ; Blyth Cat. no. 



221, p. 75 ; Allen Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, v, p. 162. 

 Nasua leucorhynchos, Tschudi Faun. Peruan., p. loo (1844). 

 Nasua solitaria var. mexicana, Weinland Zool. Gart., i, p. 191 (i86o)*. 

 Nasua socialis, De Saussure Zool. Gart., iii, p. 53 (1862)*. 

 Bassaricyon gabbii, Allen P. Acad. N. Sci. Philad., p, 20 (1876). 



The White-nosed Coati. 



Distribution. — Central America, Texas and California south, 

 wards as far as the Isthmus of Panama. 



a. Skin and ? Purchased, 1878. 



skelet. 

 b. Stuffed $ America W. Rutledge, 1870. 



Genus CERCOLEPTES. 



Potos, G. Cuvier Tableau Gen. in Legons, d'Anat. Camp., ist ed. i. (1800)*. 

 YJ\v\\i^]aw,Lacepede Mem. Inst. Paris, iii, p. 492 (1801). 

 Cercoleptes, Illiger Prodr., p. 127 (181 1). 



Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. 



Viverra caudivolvula, Schreber Sciugeth., iii, p. 453, pi. cxxv ('773 

 Lemur flavus Sckreber Saugeth.,\, p. 145, pi. xlii 1778), 



